Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.
Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.
That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
The more violent the storm the sooner it is over.
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.